St. John's Daily Star, 1919-03-04

              The St. John's Daily Star Newfoundland VOLUME V. ($3.00 per Annum) *%&>■ > TUESDAY, MARCH 4,1919. (PROBS: Strong N. E. Winds; Snow) No. 51 Allies' Demands On Germans For War Damages Slated To Total Twenty-Four Billion Pounds SAYS FORCE IS ONLY WAY Bolshevism Must Be Checkmated By Might of Nations, Declares Paderewski.SYSTEM MENACE TO WHOLE WORLD WARSAW, March I—"Can you oppose bolshevism with the Bible? "Friis is a question which the world h facing today," said Ignace Jan premier of Poland,1 jftmewhat nettled at an apparent American opposition to the big Pollfh army which is being formed. "It is not an individual peril but a peril for civilisation, for the aim of the •trtire christian civilisation, peace and work, will not kill bolshevism as far as ue are concerned because you cannot have peace and organise pros-, perit\ with your next door neighbor, advising-your workmen not to work: and paying agents to destroy your factories,as quickly as you can build them. Most people like to get money i without working, and ttiat is what; bolshevik Russia offers." When asked if he was able to re-' emcile the 350,000 Polish army with! the league of nations plan, M. Pader-j ewski replied, "Yes, certainly, and 1 snv quite in sympathy with that plan. Poland's army is to be recruited for «tich time as is necessary to restore; order on our frontidrs. It will be an army.of peace and order, or police-' •nen if you will, the same as the United States called up to protect its horders along Mexico from outrage.! We do not seek any quarrel, we shall i he delighted to see this pacific plan \> • orked out.". I j New Loan Of 8 Billion Washington, March 3.—President Wilson signed the "victory loan" bill authorizing the treasury to issue 7,--000,000,000 in short term note and providing $1,000,000,000 for the use of the war finance corporation in stimulating the country's, foreign commerce. • f TO TAKE OVER HUN SHIPPING Allied Commission Goes to Spa to ' Complete Arrangements. Paris March X—Representatives of Great Britain, the United States, France and of the other powers have departed for Spa to complete with the Germans arrangements for the release of German ships in certain ports and certain German vessels in neutral ports. Virtually all the details for the release of the vessels have been arranged and it is anticipated that they will be turned over under the agreement without delay. VINCENTIANS ARRIVE. Revs. Father MacKen/.ie and Father Conroy, of the Viacentian Order, who will deliver a series of sermons at St. Patrick's and the cathedral respectively during Lent, arrr?»d from Philadelphia Ly the Kyle yesterday. Father MacKenzi: was hen- last >ear. Father Conroy is making his first visit to Newfoundland, and will occupy the pulpit -it the cathcdr.il tomorrow. Mr. 'Gus' Stafford who was ill is improved. Mr. A. Crocker presided at the organ at the C.E. Cathedral in a very able manner. FRANCE WANTS TEN BILLIONS Demands Immediate Payment of Portion Of War Damages in Gold and in Material—Balance to be Paid Within Thirty- Five Years Paris, March 3.—The peace conference committee o*l reparations has estimated that £24,000,000.000 is the amount which the enemy countries ought to pay tne allied and associated powers, says a Havas Agency statement today. France, adds the statement, demands immediate payment by the enemy of £ 10,000,000,000, part in gold, part in materials and part in foreign securities, recommending that the remainder of the amount be payable in a period of from twenty-five to thirty-live years. TO STUDY HUN FOOD SUPPLY France Taking Steps to Ascertain Actual Situation in Germany. Copenhagen, March 3.—Marshal Foch has informed the German armistice commission, according to a report from Berlin, that negotiations regarding the food supply of Germany and financial and shipping questions will begin at Spa on  day. General Nudant, the representative of Marshal Foch at Spa, it is said, has told the German armistice commission that the French government has decided to send a new mission to Berlin to study the question of food supplies. The mission will be headed by M. Laqqenin. RAISE FORCE IN DOMINIONS Suggestion to Recruit Household Guards From Oversees. London, March 3.— (Via's Reujter's)—Endorsing, the widely-held j opinion regarding the formation of z j regiment of Dominion Guard*. The Daily Graphic says: "Would it not |be appropriate to signalize the high ; fighting qualities of our overseas solidiers by creating a regiment of Dominion Guards? A brigade of guards would have certain privileges which would ensure for that innovation the universal appropriation and appreciation of the peoples, and such a regiment would round orf in the happiett manner the establishment of household troops, giving them a unit thoroughly typical of the empire as a whole. "It may be hazarded that if the king were to issue a royal warrant, sufficient men to form the firit Dominion Guards' Regiment would be at once "forthcoming from the wartried soldiers of Canada, the Anzacs, and South Africa. They have earned such a distinction as thoroughly as any regiment in the British army. In their homelands they could perform for the official residences of the representatives of the king those duties which the guards discharge in connection with the royal palaces here." BELIEVES IN WILSON E Valera Believes U. S. President Will Help Ireland Out E London March 3—At a meeting E of the ultranationalist Irish society in E London to-day, a letter from Edward s de Valera, the Irish leader recently E escaped from prison, written in ci- S pher, was read. The letter contain- Ei fd the following advice to the so- E | ciety: "Pronounce no opinion on Presi- E dent Wilson j it is premature, for he 2 and his friends will bear our coun- E try in mind at the crucial hour." PLAN OF REPARATION : Cernans Must Make Good French Works of Art Destroyed Paris, March 3—As reparation for E the works of art destroyed in France ! by the Germans it is suggested by' S the French academy of fine arts, ac-5 cording to The Journal Dcs Debats, £ that works of French genius now in ! ihe collection of the former royal • families and public museums of Ger: many and Austria be put at the disi posal of the French state which will, : select some of these works at a legi-' !■ timale indemnity. NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA Agitation for Full Independence Still Carried On. Cape Town, South Africa, March 3.—(Via Reuters Ottawa Agency) —In the debate in the-house of assembly Sir Thomas Smart's motion condemning the republican propaganda was continued. lliemann Roos, the Transvaal nationalist leader, in the course of a full statement of the nationalist viewpoint declared that if the nationalist mission in Europe failed they would continue to agitate with a view of obtaining a majority of parliament and gaining the independence of' South Africa constitutionally. He denied the sanctity of the act of union which he said mostly perpetuated preunion conditions with the substitution of one government u.rdcr the British crown for lour colonial governments Roor categorical y asked the premier whether the government amendment which "favored the development of autonomy while deprecating the present agitalion and any tendency to outside interference" meant granting the fullest development under the British crown •> MAY HOLD LEFT BANK OF RHINE Allies Likely to Let Up New Republic As Buffer State. Paris, March 3.—The question of the left bank of the Rhine wil? figure in the preliminary peace treaty, according to the Paris edition of The London Daily Mail. In certain quarters, it adds there is seridus consideration of the formation or-atisindependent German republic on the\jeft bank of the Rhine.  The allies it is said, would continue to hold the present bridgeheads along the Rhine until Germany completed her indemnity payments. All these questions, The Daily Mail continues, will be settled at one session of the supreme council after the return of president Wilson. DISARMAMENT OF THE GERMANS Allies to Further Consider Huns Naval and Military Strength Paris, March 3—The disarmament of Germany from the point of yew of the military naval and air sexperts of the allied and associated powers was discussed by the supreme war council at its meeting to-day. 1 ihe council will hold its next meet- I mg Wednesday afternoon, according I to the official announcement issued to-day which reads: 1 "The supreme war council met toj day from three to five o'clock p. m. i lhey discussed the report of the raili! lary, naval and air experts on the I disarmament of the enemy. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 5, at three o'clock in ihe afternoon." —  Mr. W. Parsons left by the Kyle I yesterday, relieving the second who j is remaining at home for a few days. Three cases of smallpox have been reported since yesterday. One on • iMundy Pond Road, another on Bu: chanan Street and the third on John j J Street. AH have been removed to hos-! Ipital. 1 LATEST PICTURE OF WOUNDED PEACE CONGRESS PRESIDENT This is [he latesl picture of jSe presidpnt of tjic world peace con- L'ref . prc-r.cr of France, Georges Cktaenceau. it was snapped as he ;v7 ledV?n '" -' —s session a tew days Ui——-- I—aSsass!n' Cotton,, altcmp ed to kill hira. MAIN MUST MAINTAIN BIG PEACE-TIME ARMY British Military Establishment Cannot Be Allowed To Become As Weak As It Was When War Started, Minister of War Tells House of Commons IJONDON, March 3.—(Via's Rev- I ter's Ottawa Agency)—ln the of commons today Right Hon. j Winston, Churchill, secretary for war, ! introducing the army estimates of 287,000,000 pounds sterling, emphaj sized the difficulty of farming estimates this year because every factor was uncertain and fluctuating. We were half way between peace and war; we were unable to fix the rate of demobilization; we did not know what arrangements effecting armaments would be embodied in the peace treaty nor how many men we must keep in the middle east and on the Rhine or for how long; we did not know whether the Germans would accept our conditions or refuse them, throwing responsibility for the future upon us and simply degenerate into ruin. He emphasized the fact "that vast areas of Ev.rope and the east were were in a state of anarchy and the allies upon whom the responsibility of enabling the world to get to work again were themselves very seriousjlyseriousjly exharsted. To all these difficulties must be added the enormous effort of winding up the war. Demobilisation Mr. Churchill said that already nearly 1,800,000 officers and men had : been demobilised and the process was , continuing at the rate of over 25,--000 daily. In addition, about 100,000 Canadians and Australians has been sent home and it haol been arranged j that every dominion soldier who had jcome over should have a chance of ! one visit to the mother country be; fore returning .to his own dominion. [There were about half a million men !in the other theatres of the war such as India and North Africa whence (it was physically impossible to re! lease men, although they did belong to the class retained in the army in [ Mesopotamia, Palestine, Caucasus and Turkey the process of release | was impeded by difficulties of transportation by the number of men affected was not very large and constantly diminishing he proposed that CARDINAL LOGUE. SAYS IRELAND IS NEGLECTED BY CONFERENCE But Warns Irish Against Acts Which1 May Bring Further Trouble On Their Country. Dublin, March 3.—Cardinal Logue, in a pastoral letter issued yesterday, says that, as any one of ordinary foresight might have anticipated, Ireland is not likely to reap much good from the labor peace conference. The cardinal advises the people to bear the prese/it drastic military code in a christian sprit and not to expose themselves recklessly to severe punishment by needless assemblies or other practices, remembering that turmoil and discord never promote a good cause. TOTAL ALLIED LOSS IN WAR 800,000 TONS British Naval Losses Are Given? As Over 500,000 Tons CENTRAL POWERS LOST WARSHIPS IN WAR TOTALLING 415,000 TONS LONDON, March 3— (Via Reuters" Ottawa Agency) ■—The total allied naval losses in the war aggregated 803,000 tons*according to an estimate sent by Reuters Paris corespondent. Of this loss the British portion was 550,000 %*>ns! The central powers lost 415.0C0 tons, but the Geriman total, which was 350,000 tons, does not cover the huge tonnage surrendered under the armistice terms. Commenting upon these estimates The Wstmmster Gazette says that although the figures given are not official they may be taken as closely approaching the naval losses suffered by the chief powers engaged in the war. "When we learn that in big ships alone we sacrificed thirteen battleships, three battle-cruisers irjd twentyfive cruisers,'' says the newspaper, "we get some notion of the tremendous character of the effort that was necessary to enable the navy to emerge from the war vastly more powerfuKth&n it was at the end of iOf-i." SHOOK FISTS AT UNCLE SAM'S MEN Arrival of Their S. African Troops Rouses Huns 'Gainst Americans Berlin, March 3—During a demonstration on the • return of General yon Lettow Vorbeck and some of his East African troops, this afternoon, i a crowd or enthusiasiics ,shook fists and sticks at a number of American' officers silting in tfie windows of the rsotd where' tn.e American mission is' Quartered. Others in the crowd ountered by clapping thejr hands and cheering the Amencons. The officers oromptly  when they saw their presence might provoke trouble. ALTERING THE MAP Conference Delegates Recasting Front icrs of Europe Paris, March 3—A new map of Europe is rapidly taking form and ! within a week the frontier of the ! old states will largely be defined as they are to appear in the peace treaty and the successive documents fixing teratory limits. First in importance is Germany's western frontier bordering on France which assumes international significance as a barrier against renewal, Hun Attacks Poles. 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